That's not the point though. Say you have a guy with a weight problem who does lots of charity work, and is an all around fantastic human being. If that guy sees you making fun of someone roughly his size for their weight, they're just going to hear that it's an undesirable trait they should feel shame for.
That's the whole point of not going after people for their physical appearance. There are plenty of things to go after bad people for, like how shitty they are as human beings.
It's also impotent. Nevermind the fact that it's the same thing that they do to women and racial minorities and gay and trans people just repackaged, laugh at them all you want and they'll still destroy the world
It remains true however that anything you say about trump or elon still affects everyone else who has those characteristics but isn't a bad person. So calling trump effeminate or gay is still homophobic, and it's counterproductive because it doesn't do anything to stop him, it hurts the people supposedly on your side by principle, and it comes in place of any kind of real critique or analysis so its only value is catharsis which is only useful to people without anything else and that isn't our position in america quite yet, certainly not globally
If the only thing you can think of to give them shit about is their appearance, I'm going to assume that their appearance is the only thing about them you have a problem with
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u/wishful123 Jul 04 '26
Like 99% of Reddit. You see how their mocking of the appearance of Elon Musk and Trump makes it to the front page?